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Members of UWUA System Local 102, Branch 180 have ratified a new union contract with FirstEnergy’s Penelec subsidiary in central Pennsylvania. The contract was approved by 57% of members after the company came up with improvements to a contract offer previously rejected by the Branch 180 members, who work from Penelec worksites in Altoona, Shippensburg,…
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com New Jersey’s State Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) once again sits front and center as a focal point with lawmakers debating the state’s financial future. The issue has unfortunately morphed into a power play woven with the threads of political rhetoric. The workers who pay into the pension fund…
Focus On Mid-Term Elections and Empowerment Through Member-to-Member Program Region III kicked-off this year’s Regional Victory Conferences with a bang as local and national leaders met in Columbus, OH for three days in May. In addition to highlighting pro-working family candidates running for office in the upcoming midterm elections, attendees participated in a series of…
The UWUA is entering the last year of a five-year federal grant, obtained through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NIEHS has focused the grant on hazard awareness and emergency preparation because it recognizes the need for workers to be involved with the changing climate of natural and manmade disasters. Creating a safe…
FirstEnergy is continuing a vicious lockout of 142 UWUA members at its Penelec utility in central Pennsylvania, even as winter storm systems sweep across the northeastern U.S., knocking out electric power for hundreds of thousands of families. The Akron, Ohio-based company locked out the members of UWUA Local 180 – a branch unit of System…